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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-02-09

| IhlS IS gOOQ maCnlne 1Or experimental
purposes, and being no longer than a Bah
cock fire extinguisher it can be readily con-
veyed to place Of safety at a very rapid
rate.
You might say to your friends that we
shall try in the future as we have in the
past to keep up the standard Of our goods,
so as to merit a continued patronage.
! Citizens of the United States, or those
who have declared their intention to be-
come such, will always be welcomed at our
works, provided they are not office holders
in any capacity. We have no use for those
who are in any way connected with the
/ public teat. |. B. MOONsHINER.
! l hope that anyone will feel perfectly
free to address me in relation to anything
/ referred to in the above letter. All com
munications containing remittances will
! be regarded as strictly confidential.-BHl
Nye in New York World.
GEN. WILDER IN. New YoRK.-Gen. J.
r. Wilder spent most of last month in
prospecting along the line of the proposed
Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Rail
road, with a view of establishing blast
furnaces and rolling mills at suitable points.
The Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago
Road is being built by the Massachusetts
and Southern Construction Company, COM
posed of Boston. New York and Southern
capitalists, through a part of the country
which is said to be fabulously rich in coal,
iron and marble deposits, and lO2 miles OF
it are already completed and in operation.
The Southern terminus will be at Charles
ton, S. C. From Camden, a few miles
above Charleston, branch will be built to
Georgetown, S. c., where seaport advan-
tages, said to be equal to any on the Allan
tic coast, are obtainable. The important
towns through which the road will run are
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TO.DAY.s TELEGRAPIlEC NEWS.
Renort octbe Debt Committee.

TSpecal Dispatch to the Alexandria Gazette
RICHMOND. Va, May 5 The Debt Com
mission made report to both houses OF The
General Assembly This afternoon. Ii say
that "they have ascertained that the coun'
sci of foreign bondholders virtually iniu-
ence majority of the consol and ten forty
bonds of Virginia. and believe that any
agreement with the foreign commission viii
be accepted by the bondholders and Will
forever settle the debt question, which has
been for so long period a disturbing ele-
ment in our State. The committee fortified
by an array of figures and facts which they
regard as unanswerable, have endeayored
10 satisfy the commission that beyond
certain sum it would be utterly
impossible for the people of this State TO
provide means to meet the obligations 10
the creditors of the State. Finally, q prop
osition, or rather suggestion Of basis oil
settlement, was presented by the commits
sion, which required a sum Of money to be
provided 10 meet the interest that would
exceed so far the revenue of the State avail
able for the payment of interest on the debt,
that whilst the members Of your committee
differed to some extent as to the amount OF
revenue applicable to the payment of in
terest on the debt, your committee felt
compelled to say to them most formally
that upon that basis it would be improper
Tor this negotiation to proceed further until
this difficulty was removed. Any further
consideration OF the remaining features of
the proposition suggested was unnecessary"
The report recommends that little time
be given to the foreign commission within
which to communicate with the council of
foreign bondholders by cable and say they
will submit final report in few days.
RI O
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TcIcgraphic Brcyiiic.

Secretary Lamar is confined to his house b.
severe attack of neuralgia in his face
Anti German demonstrations conting, 70
made in various sections of Paris.
dispatch from Rangoon says tia. cv
has done much damage to shipping there.
The Chinese portion of San jose, CAL. U,. !,
stroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. Tho ~.
$4,000; insurance $4,000.
Peter Smith, the condemned murderer of III.
Hannah. night Waterman was hanged +, g u,
Tombs prison, New York, at 80 rlo.t ~, ~.
morning.
The ballot for United sts,es Senator ~.
Florida Legislature to-day resulted as PILLOW
Perry, 20 Pasco is; Bloxham, 2i. Ga.l,a
(repJ II; scattering, dem =
Six negro boys were shot at wilmine..n. T.
this morning by the accidental dischsrs. IF .....
one of the party Was handling Three o., ~
boys were instantly killed and three taig il.
jured
terrific thunder storm, accompanied ly b-,v-
hail and wind, equal to hurricane. passed. o,,.
the Allegheny Mountains, il eastern saa.-..,
and western Bedford counties, Pa. between .sg'a
and eight o'clock last evening Trees wc,.n.
rooted and much damage done.
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Kentucl.Y Democrats

The Kentucky democratic State convention
was held in Louisville yesterday, and was attend.
ed by full representation of delegates Hon.
John G. Carlisle was made permanent speakef
and in his speech indorsed the administratiou
and demanded reduction Of the tariff. After
the organization of the convention General Simon
Bolivar Buckner was nominated by acclalnation
for Governor. The platform indorses President
Cleveland favors honest civil service, b. winch
is meant the faithful performance of public du-
ties by men appointed TO otlcc, aid opposes li'r
tenure civil pension list, and other apIcndasc, Oh
bureaucratic system declares in favor of gold
and silver money and pauer convertible into coin
on demand, protests that enough general laws aIe
on the statute books TO protoctpubic morals with
out infringing private rights sympath.zes with
Ireland and denounces coercion; views with
alarm" the tendency Of certain classes % seek tic
aid and bounty of the general government, aud
reasserts the time.hOnored democratic dorrite
that all powers not delegated to the United States
are reserved to the States or the people. de-
nounces the present war tariff laid u confuse 81
well as harrass the people us MASTERPIECE OF il-
justice which has been maintained by a false
theory, which robs the many and enriche5 tho
few, and demands an immediate reduction Of IT,
and demands that all taxes be abolished on tie
nccessaries of life, and asserts that taxes should
be levied for public purposes and limited To tho
needs of the government economically sdmiuii
tered
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FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of tho Alexa. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON. D. c.. May 3. 1857.

Especial Correspondence of tho Alexa. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON. D. c., May 5, 1887.
Governor Lee, of Virginia, who has been
here for the past two days, left this morning
for Richmond. Yesterday evening he at
tended the races, having a seat on the
judges stand, and last night he occupied an
orchestra chair at the opera. In converse
ton with friend yesterday about the pros
pect OF a settlement OF the public debt OF his
State, he expressed himself as by no means
sanguine of that settlement. He SAID o
great many members of the legislature OF
his State were in favor Of settling the debt,
but that many were in favor OF settling 1t
only upon the terms of the Ridd!eberger
bill, and many upon their own terms, and
that so great is the diversity of opinion con-
corning it that he feared the present at.
tempt to effect settlement would not be
successful. The Governor is very popular
here, and his name is frequently mentioned
in connection with the democratic nomina-
ton for the next Vice Presidency.
An official of the Richmond and Danville
Railroad, here to-day, said he didn't think
that company would move their central
Office from tins city, as they conduct its bus
mess here cheaper than they could at any
other point. He said, besides, that the com
pany, in addition to the original purchase
money for their building here, had since
then spent $4,000 in arranging i. for their
business.
AS the GAZETTE's correspondent was
passing through the Capitol at noon to-day,
he saw hurryng through that building, on
his way to the loom Of the L. s. Supreme
Court, Justice Bradley, OF that court, carry
ing in his hand small basket containing
his lunch. At the same moment he saw a
Capitol laborer with his dinner basket in
his hand, hurrying TO q cool place in which
to eat his midday meal. This was a striking
instance of the prevalence OF republican in.
situations under really republican form OF
government. An associate justice OF the
highest court in the land, in fact the very
man who had made President, and day
lsborer brushing by each other in the Cap
itol of the nation, each with his own dinner
in his hand, and the money TO buy which
each had earned by his own labor. Yes,
"the potter, in making his pots and things,
uses the toes of beggars and the heads OF
kings" And yet the anarchists say this is
an aristocratic government.
Queen Kapiolani and suite, escorted by
the representatives Of the State, War and
Navy departments, paid visit this morning
to the Washington barracks, where special
review of the troops was held in their honor.
Several hundred spectators divided their
attention between the royal visitors and
the evolutions Of the soldiers. The troops
were under the command OF General Gibson,
and the review was participated in by
five foot batteries and one light artillery
battery. This afternoon the Queen received
the representatives of foreign governments
in Washington. Later in tho afternoon the
Queen attended the races. To morrow she
will visit Mount Vernon on the Us. steamer
Dispatch.
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NEWS OF THE DAY.

A severe earthquake shock was felt On
Tuesday at points in California, Arizona,
New Mexico, Texas and Mexico.
Some of the spectators in Patti opera
tiskets in Washington were badly bitten by
the refusal of the public to pay the exorb-
tant prices asked.
The West Virginia Legislature took seven
Intellectual ballots Tor United States Senator
yesterday, after which the Hon. ]. n. Cam.
den withdrew from the contest.
The naval lifeboat board, after a thorough
examination of all models submitted has
made report to the Secretary of the Navy
in which it states that no lifeboat suitable
for use on men-of-war has yet been found.
The Mexican Senate having yesterday
passed the bill repeating the constitutional
prohibition of a second term for the Presi
dent of the republic, that measure will now
go to the State Legislatures for ratification.
A Touring mill in Oregon pays an ada
cent saw mill $50 day for its sawdust
which it uses for fuel in its big furnaces.
Their fuel cost them 500 day before they
found that they could burn what most West
ern saw mills throw away
A court-martial at Guaymas, Mexico, call
ed to try the persons arrested tor completely
in the outrages committed March at No
gales, Arizona, was held yesterday, and Col.
ArvlZaharvisu and Lieutenants Gutierrez.
Amanuel and Valanzula were sentenced to
be shot.
Another lively debate occurred in the
British House of Commons yesterday on the
Smith resolution as to the London Times.
The outcome will probably be that the
Times accusation will be declared not
breech of privilege, and Mr. Gladstone's
amendment asking for a committee of in
curry will be defeated. Mr.. Smith is trying
to force public trial, which the Parnellites
will resist.
At the annual meeting of the stockholders
OF the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
RAILWAY in Cleveland, o., yesterday, Cor
nelius Vanderbilt and other directors were
reelected. The report shows a total fund
ed debt OF $40, 692, 900. Gross earnings were
SIS .S59, ASS. AZ operating expenses. S9,73l,-
622 net earnings, S6,127 ,S3347. The fixed
charges were S3,7l2,97S 60, leaving the sur
plus Of earnings $2,4l4 S5447.
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cal conclusion would produce substantially
the same results. The man who believes
that it is the right and duty of the govern
ment to take the earnings OF one citizen, oy
taxation or otherwise, and give them
to another, differs very little from
the man who denies the right OF prop
erty altogether CHEERS and applause
If the government may rightfuly compel
YOU by law to give any part of the proceeds
of your labor or your skill to another man
why may it not with equal right. compel
YOU to give him your horse or your land?
The fact that this is done indirectly and I'M
der the guise of taxation, does not in the
slightest degree affect the question Of right
or wrong involved in the transaction, but
it greatly increases the danger to the
people, because they are less likely TO
detect and resist the spolialion when 1t Is
committed through this insldlous process
And if the government may rlghtfully col
ect money by taxation and then divide 1t
us bounty or subsidy to individuals or cor
porations engaged in particular industries,
or enterprises, in order to make their prl'
vate business profitable, why may it not also
collect it and distribute it among particular
classes Of the people in order to equalize
their fortunes, and thus accomplish all that
socialism and communism are demanding?
There is so little difference in principle and
in practical results between paternal gov
erument and mob government that it is not
worth while 20 express preference for one
over the other. We must oppose both, or
we must abandon all that our party has con.
tended for in the past, aud relinquish all it
has hoped for in the future.
Referring TO party lines ne said
tGrha dapooorofin ri Glands Mad O1d
the most solemn manner to revise the tariff,
reduce the revenue and tighten the burdens
OF the people. Upon their pledges clearly
and distinctly made, it appealed to the PEG.
in 1872 and secured a popular majority OF
more than two hundred and fifty Thousand
over its republican adversaries. Upon this
pledge it elected president in 1884, and 1t
is bound by every consideration of party
policy of the public interests and Of good
faith to the people to stand by that pledge
Great applause
Referring to Mr. Cleveland, Mr.. Carlisle
said
1.-THE country will be very fortunate if it
can always secure the services of an execu-
tive so thoroughly devoted to the real in
terests of the people, and so just and inn
partial in the execution of the Laws as the
present one is"
LOUISVILLE, KY. May 5.-The conveu-
ton resumed its session this morning, and
the resolutions as drawn up by Mr. Carlisle
and Mr.. Watterson were adopted Hon
James w. Bryan, of Covington, was nom-
mated for Lieutenant Governor on the
first ballot The following additional NOM
nations were made by the convention
p W. Hardin, of Mercer county, Attorney
General; Gen. Lafayette Hewitt of Hardin,
Auditor; Richard Tate, of Franklin, Treas
urar
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VIRGINIA NEWS.

DIR. r. W. Bosseau, prominent physl
clan of Amelia county, died last Sunday,
of pneumonia.
Iieut. Mari, of the United States coast
survey. has been detailed to make survey
of the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
The vile of ex- Governor Gilbert G. Wal.
ker, who was the first executive of the State
after reconstruction, is in Richmond, the
guest of Mrs. Doctor Ross.
Judge William Weldon, formerly judge
of the County Court Of Prince William
county, whose illness has heretofore been
mentioned, died Sunday aged 90 years.
Mr.. John Pickett, e veteran and pension
err Of the war of 1872, died on Monday in
Nelson county in the Tooth year of his age.
His wife died last year at the age of IS.
A young girl, named Katie Richardson,
eight years Of age, of Portsmouth, fell
through the trestework ola railroad track
Tuesday evening and was instantly killed.
The stone quarry company operating
near Brentsville contemplate building a
tram railway from their quarry TO Potomac
| City so as to secure water transportation
for their commodity.
In Amherst county, las. Friday, Lewis, a
son of Samuel Jennings, was grazing his
horses in the field, and during storm
sought shelter in an old tobacco house,
which blew down, and the logs falling on
him, injured him so that he died in few
hours.
In the United States Circuit Court in Nor
folk yesterday the grand jury had before
them the Exchange National Bank cases
again, and returned indictments for perjury
and making false reports against John B.
Whitehead, president; Geo. NJ. Balm,
cashier; James II. Toomer, assistant cashier;
and the directors. Judge Bond will fix the
day for trial. The comptroller Of the cur
rency has declared a third dividend, ten
per cent, in favor of the creditors. This
makes in all forty per cent. on claims
proved amounting to 81, $751; 1856.
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LETTER FROyG RICHE,uOYD.

Especial Cor. of the Alexandria GAZETTE
RICHMOND, Va, May 4, 1SS7-The bill
to provide for an appropriation of 81 900 for
the Ladies' Memorial Association, of Man
assas, received black eye in the Senate a
day or two ago but to day Senator Meredith
succeeded in having the bill called up and
he then made strong speech in advocacy
of it. Some Senators held that the appro-
priaton was unconstitutional, as it was
stated that the money would be used for
completing the handsome wall around the
Manassas cemetery Mr. Meredith COM
pletey upset the nconsttutionality argu-
ment when he stated that the General AS
sembly has as much right to vote money to
improving an ex.Confederate cemetery as it
has to vote funds for buying wooden legs
for living ex- Confederate soldiers. The bill
was ordered to its engrossment which means
in this instance that the Senate will agree to
its passage. l do not think there will be
any trouble III running the bill through the
House, because so many members OF that
body to use familiar expression are
mashed on all bills affecting ex-Con-
federates, dead or alive" This fact
was recognized, it is said, by the commits
sion on the debt when the English commits
sion declared that the appropriations for
the disabled ex.Confederates were rather
too liberal. Sir Edward Thornton and MIR.
Braithwaie may think that less should be
given to these poor old eoldiers, who are
now well advanced in years and who have
scarcely any means of support in their de.
clining days, but the members of the Gen.
eral Assembly, to man, are Of a contrary
opinion, In this connection | might add
that the suggestion thrown out by the rep
resentatives of the council of foreign bond
holders, to the effect that the public schools
of the Commonwealth might be given less,
is also one which will not meet with the ap
proval of any political faction in Virginia.
If understand It Alright these were "bones
of contention in the sessions of the confer
ence, aid hence no one will wonder why
mutual agreement is impossible between
Virginia and her creditors who are repre-
sented here by Sir Edward Thornton
The Speaker has appointed Messrs. Wilkins, of
Northampton, and Carlett, of Lancaster, the COM
mittee on the part of the House to investigate
charges of incompctency and neglect of duty pre-
ierrod against Capt. Seth Foster commander of
the oyster steamer Chesapeake. Mr.. Dalton of
Norfolk, was appointed in the Senate. This COM
mittee requested 20 report to the Board of the
Chesapeake and not to the General Assembly
The Board will act upon the recommendations of
the special committed The investig alton is to be
had Immediately after the adjournment of tho
General Assembly
To-day took occasion to interview thirteen of
the most prominent democratic legislators upon
the subject of adjournment sine die, and they all
including Lieutenant-Governor Massey, thought
the session of the General Assembly would last
long enough to make lorty-five actual working
DAYS This will place the adjournment st next
Saturday two weeks. BIZ. Y.
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Ex REPRESENTATIVE DEzENDoRF is right
when he says that the Northern and foreign
capital now flowing through Virginia TO
more Southern States, would stop here were
it not for the unsettled condition of the State
debt, aud that il will be crying shame, and
q grevous injury to every interest in and
out of Virginia if the proposed settlement
of that debt be allowed to fail. OF the one
hundred and forty members of the legisla'
ture, there certainly ought to be seventy-one
sufficiently interested in the States welfare
to see that the debt be settled, and the OBJ
stacle to her rise and progress thereby be
removed Immediately.
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The Mineral Railway Bill.

Special dispatch to the Alexandria GAZETTE
RICHMOND, May 5.-The bill granting a
charter to the Mineral Railroad Com
pany TO construct railroad from Stras.
burg to Mooretield, w. Va, passed
the Senate TO day without amendment.
The bill had already passed the House Of
Delegates, but met with some opposition in
the Senate. An amendment was adopted
in the Senate's committee requiring the
road TO pass through Winchester, which
amendment was defeated, and the bill as it
came from the House finally passed.
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PAY OF EMPLoYEs.-A bill has been re.
ported from the judiciary committee of the
House OF Delegates. which has for its object
the compulsory payment in lawful money
of wages to employees engaged in the iron
and steel manufactures, and those engaged
in coal and other manufacturing and min
log companies of the State. 1t also provides
that if store orders or scrip are issued by
those companies in lieu of lawful money
they shall be redeemed by those issuing
them at their regular pay periods and to
bear the legal rate of interest. And if any
of the above mentioned manufacturing or
mining companies keep in connection with
their mapufsctories storehouse, in which
goods are sold to employees, they shall not
charge said employees o greater per cent.
profit than goods are sold by them 10 those
who are not employees.
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The Mining Disaster.

NANArlo, B. c., May 5.-All day yester
day gangs of men were engaged in strenu
Gus efforts to subdue the flames in No.
shaft OF the Victoria Coal Company, where
an explosion occurred on Tuesday night. At
l. p. m. it was thought that they had the
fire under control The Merriweather
steam fire engine did good work, pumping
water from the harbor down the shaft, the
hand fire engine having been taken down
the mine 10 fight the ire from the level. 1t
will be impossible to make an attempt to
get at the imprisoned men until the fire is
subdued, for by doing so it would drive the
gas on to the fire and cause second disas-
ter. There is but little hope of rescuing the
men alive, but an effort will be made at the
first possible moment to reach the impris-
oned miners. Over one half of the injured
and imprisoned men leave wives and FAM
lilies to mourn their untimely end.
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Wreck on THE B. & o. R RAT Evansville
on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, eight milo
southeast of Frederick, yesterday morning four
cars with emigrants from baltimore, were thrown
from the track at the cross switch and badly
wrecked. One car plunged cndwise over mil
race embankment probably 30 feet deep; ono
struck freight car standing near by and had all
most its entire side torn of, and tho other two
were also considerably damaged, but notwit.
eight were injured. One woman, belonging to 3
party of English people bound for California. had
bone in her left ankle broken, another woman
had her right wrist fractured, while the six others
injured received only cuts and bruises which are
not thought to be serious The track wss blockaded
for about five hours. TIC accident was caused by
one OF the old-timc switches, all OF which Will
soon be removed.